About Childe Hassam
Frederick Childe Hassam was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums. He produced over 3,000 paintings, oils, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs over the course of his career, and was an influential American artist of the early 20th century. In 1882, Hassam became a free-lance illustrator (known as a "black-and-white man" in the trade), and established his first studio. By 1883, Hassam had exhibited watercolors in his first solo exhibition at the Williams and Everett Gallery in Boston. By the mid-1880s, Hassam began painting cityscapes; Boston Common at Twilight (1885) was of his first.
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